UNCRoss

Needed a new 3 wood.  With review on here and price comparison this was a no brainer.  It is very consistent for carry distance 248-255 in my testing, and is higher ball flight which suits my game.
 

I got the Honma Big-LB head only for $45 in fair condition, but with a swipe of the magic eraser it was like new. Shafted it with a Helium S staff I had and it is very easy to launch for a 14 degree 3w. Huge all Titanium head with a heavy steel sole and GREAT off the tee. Easy to Launch high off the deck as well. Long.
This auction if interested.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/355176308746
 
Also found a great deal on a Black/camo Jones stand Bag locally. When I picked it up there were 4 Sunfish Headcovers and 3 Golf Pride chorded Tour Velvet grips and a pro-v1 valuables/ball bag in there. Contacted him and he told me to discard it. I did not.
 

Congratulations to the testers!

Week 33 Final Recap
30 scores posted this week!
Course Photo Honor Roll
@Josh Parker
@Syks7
@GolfSpy SAM
@Cfhandyman
@Siamese Moose
@ryan.mzzz
@rkj427
As always, a big thanks to all of you that submit photos with your posts. It is greatly appreciated and helps to beautify the thread. Those of us that dwell in the north, need all the vitamin D by proxy, these photos can provide. 😀
 
Low Net & Most Net Birdies
    
This week @RoverRick carded an impressive 7 Under net 65 to accompany his 10 net birdies! Well Done.Low Net & Most Net
Low Gross & Longest Drive
    
As we have come to expect, another utterly average week for the machine that is @Javs, A 3 under 69 for the low gross and a rather pedestrian (by his standards) 335 yards for the longest drive. Great stuff!
Long Drive Honor Roll
@Javs - 335 yards
@Javs - 329 yards
@Javs - 312 yards
@J7Hawkins - 312 yards
@Play18 - 303 yards
@Ben Joest - 303 yards
@GolfSpy SAM - 295 yards
 
 
 

Looks amazing! Well done!

Looks amazing! Well done!

PXG had a super sweet Veteran's day deal this year and I had to pick up 5 more golf gloves, 2 black and 3 white... Thanks Bob!

Recently I had come across a post about redoing a gloss finish into matte. I had posted in the club ho page but @cnosilwas kind enough to point me in the right direction to this DIY section. I'm afraid this might soon become my favorite part of MGS as I'm a true DIY nerd and there are a ton of cool ideas in here. 
As I had mentioned in the other forum, I had somehow managed to swing my Cobra Radspeed hybrid into the chain on my garage door.. oof. Total McFly moment 😖. Needless to say it did a number on the crown of my club. I've loved the Radspeed hybrid so it was a hard pill to swallow when it happened. Well I managed to put my OCD aside for a little while and continue to play the club with the wounded top. 
Recently I fell deep down the rabbit hole of DIY gloss to matte paint refinishing and found some really cool stuff out there. Here are some instructions that I've "borrowed" from another site that seemed to work beautifully

I followed it up with a couple of coats of this stuff 

And here are my results

I'm pretty stoked about the outcome. The pic on the left is from the Internet. I wish I would have taken a pic before when it had the chain marks. It was pretty gnarly looking. In my eyes this is a whole new club. 

Not so much what I bought as what I did. I just didn't know where else to share it 😜
I love the Cobra Radspeed hybrid! When I first set up my garage practice area, I wasn't sure which direction to hit without hitting the garage door tracks or chain. Well one day I ended up hitting the garage door chain and it really messed up the top of the club. I was gutted. I like the club so much that I just have continued to use it with the nasty battle damage on top. 
Well yesterday I found myself deep down a DIY rabbit hole and managed to do this

If you look really closely you can still barely see the scratches but it's a night/day difference. I'm actually loving the matte black look and to keep almost "looks" like a brand new club. 
Used to look like this before the scars were added. 

 

I just bought a ping g425 3 hybrid. I didn't believe it when people said ping clubs were so easy to hit, but they are!
I'm on the hunt for a ping 2 hybrid and 3 wood now! 

Got a round in today with my son and my brother-in law (Tim). It turned out to be perfect golf weather. Slight breeze, sunny and 77 degrees. The greens were rolling well and hitting the fairway would reward you with some decent rollout as the fairways are going dormant. My son struggled on the front 9 but got things figured out on the back. Tim and I were steady. The scores were different but we both shot the same score on the front and the back. I was 36-36 and Tim was 44-44. 
Good company and good golf on a nice day. What else can you ask for. 
The only negative part of the day was my wife and my sister-in-law went shopping while we were playing. Women can do a whole lot of damage in 5 hours.😳
 

Well, as I posted in the Good Morning thread today, this was my first round after GHIN closed in our area until March 1.  I felt pretty good, but it was a chilly 39º and cloudy but no wind.  I was still cold!!  My wife and I played with two friends of ours that had a tee time at 8:21... 15 minutes before ours.  
I made it through the front nine in a usual for me 41 (+4).  I even had a birdie on the par 5 #5 hole (on in regulation).  It's been a long time since I have been on that green in regulation.  Fairways are drier and ground is getting firmer so more distance!!  😃  
Starting on #9, my swing was a lot more fluid and the short game was working.  Shot 34 (-1) with another birdie on our risk/reward Par 4 #14.  Since everything was working well and there was no wind, I decided to go for the green.  I usually don't go for the green unless I have a tailwind and the tee box is near the front of the teeing ground.  It wasn't but the pin was favorably located for a shot short in the bunker, which was where I ended up... sandy tap-in birdie!!  🤩.  I also had sandy pars on #13 and #18.
Score today was 75 and a great-for-me 11 GIR, but I did miss a few makable birdie putts.  It was nice to record another sub-age round this year, especially under less than ideal temperatures.  Let's see what happens tomorrow when we have a little rain tonight followed by winds 15-20 with gusts to 35mph.

Date 11/19/2023 Course Name Rosedale G & CC Gross Score 88 Course Handicap 11 Gross Strokes over/under par 16 Net Score to Par 5 Net Score 77 Net Birdies or better 6 Longest Drive 0 SIM Round Not a great day but not a bad day. It was cart path only today so a lot of walking while still riding a cart!! Guess I should have been hitting the ball closer to the cart paths!! LOL

Date 11/18/2023 Course Name Key West Golf Club Gross Score 83 Course Handicap 13 Gross Strokes over/under par 13 Net Score to Par 0 Net Score 70 Net Birdies or better 3 Longest Drive 181 SIM Round Overall, it was a solid round today.  We had anywhere between 10-14 inches of rain in the Keys on Wednesday with spotty rain on Thursday and Friday.  So, the course was wet and played longer than usual.  Add in about a 20 mph wind and the course was a challenge today!

A decent driving round as far as fairways hit.  However the lack of roll, yielded shorter drives than I'm accustomed to.  Still, 79% fairways hit is pretty good with a couple of misses only a foot or two into the rough.  The greens in regulations wasn't very good.  My irons really didn't heat up until three-quarters of the way through the round.  Four up and downs are about right and only 26 putts hide most of my iron accuracy issues.  Nine one putts and no three putts really allowed me to score better than I should have.  The two putts I had were also mostly within 1 foot, so my speed was pretty good today.  The extra time I've been spending in my backyard putting green has seemed to help.  I did chip in from the back fringe on our par three 16th hole.  It was the only birdie in the men's league today!   
It's strange to see that I averaged whole numbers on my par three, fours and fives today.  

Date 11/18/2023 Course Name Smyrna Municipal Gross Score 80 Course Handicap 2 Gross Strokes over/under par 8 Net Score to Par 6 Net Score 78 Net Birdies or better 4 Longest Drive 0 SIM Round Reposting because my score didn’t show up. 

Date 11/19/2023 Course Name Sun City Golf Club Cowan Creek Gross Score 70 Course Handicap 1 Gross Strokes over/under par -2 Net Score to Par -3 Net Score 69 Net Birdies or better 7 Longest Drive 329 SIM Round Ran into a buzz saw today. In a match and giving 1 shot a side. Hit 14 greens and had 29 putts with two 3 putts. A disappointing 4 bogies offset by 6 natural birdies and 1 net birdie. However, not good enough as the guy I was playing shot 68! Ouch!

Got a Cobra King Vintage Sport-60 putter for next to nothing, in great condition minus a mark on the sik face insert. From what I can tell, and read online it shouldn't effect performance at all. Have been wanting a blade style to mess around with, and I love how the hosel flows into the head on this putter. Maybe could use a little extra length on the shaft (34" currently), and not a huge fan of the grip so might tinker with that.

Early Christmas Present 

Golf partner USA has some nice ones on sale this morning. I’m try to decide between a 425 max and a 430 sft. 430 is $40 more

That’s great to know, when I started back playing a few months ago I bought a couple dozen used pro v’s from someone local on marketplace. 

I do believe at some point there will be a lab series by MGS on lake balls... I think?

this hit my inbox’s today.  maybe it’s time to do some fishing for ProVs!
 
https://www.golfsciencejournal.org/article/81254-retention-of-golf-ball-performance-following-up-to-one-year-submergence-in-ponds
 

Most of my golfing life I’ve been a 16-20 hdcp. Last year I was a 17. Decided to put some more time and effort into golf so I got fitted for irons this spring. Went there expecting to get fitted into g425s or jpx hot metal or something game improvementish but was surprised when the i230s ended up being the winner. I had been gaming rocketbladez from 10 years ago so anything would be an upgrade but the i230s have been great for me. I’ve played a ton of golf this summer and a lot of work on the range but I still occasionally use the entire face of the club and I definitely notice my poor strikes don’t end up as terrible a result as I probably deserve. I’m fairly steep with my irons and these don’t dig unless I completely chunk one. I’m confident in the i230s hitting my number when I make a decent swing and rarely hit a flier or fall short. I’m still not as strong in my approach game as my driving and chipping but that’s a me thing not a club issue. Played at a 10-11 hdcp since early summer and will definitely be keeping the i230s in the bag next year 

S159 52* looks like the MG4....really love the straight top from hosel to toe...these might be the ones...

Sounds like the S159 is the replacement for the glide series. Going back to a bit more of a traditional shape. Definitely a cleaner look too.